Originally Posted by
sonatine
Interesting tidbits...
- there are two more seasons signed, not one.
- its actually all getting a bit dicey because the actors are getting offered major roles in films, so everyone is already a little edgy about how to sort that out.
- season 3 is going to have a fairly major time jump because puberty and they have a 15 month turnaround average so far.
- the obvious assumption is that 8 will be one season, mind flayer the other.
- on a more micro level, both fatboy and the cop are almost certainly infected with spores (but cop was allowed to just wander out into the world because even tho they totally failed to spot will's infection, its totally worth rolling the dice on the cop because hes "cool" or something). plus all they did with will is get rid of the mind flayer, he had a full plate of issues before that.
The main cast of kids got $30K per episode for season 1.
Not sure what they got for season 2 but Netflix is cheap.
Netflix lie about what they spend on their content.
They claim they will spend $6 Billion for TV/movies in 2017. Last 3 months (they spent about $465 million).
They now claim that Netflix will spend $8 Billion on content in 2018. Bullshit. Scrolling their shows I see a whole bunch of shit content like Ashton Kutcher's terrible series that I'm sure they paid almost nothing for.
Most of the movies on Netflix are over 10 years old that the movie studios over charged them for.
However, for some stupid reason they are investing a lot of money on some horrible new movies like $90 million for a movie starring Will Smith.
It takes about 3 months to shoot a 12 episode TV series.
So it probably takes less time to film Stranger Things.
Ratings really don't matter. Netflix uses Stranger Things to promote their service.
Besides the actress who plays eleven.
I don't think most of these kids are going on to make big bucks doing movies.